Kids’ Books

Little Jack Horner Live from the Corner

Jack Horner ventures into the limelight when he enters a talent show. The aspiring musician exudes a retro hipster vibe with his frilly collar and cuffs, knickers, and horn-rimmed glasses. Jack’s song choice, however, proves ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ If You Hold a Seed

By Elly MacKay

This touching, romantic debut, written and illustrated by Elly MacKay, presents a story about the life cycle of birth, growth, and renewal through simple text and atmospheric illustrations. A young boy plants a seed near ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

By Terence Dickinson

Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in April 1990, the 12-ton behemoth has been responsible for creating an image archive that accounts for 50 tetrabytes of data: the equivalent of five times ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil’s Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon’s Edge

By Arno Kopecky

Over the past two decades, the so-called “resource curse” has become one of the central problems of development economics. Academics, politicians, and policymakers have all struggled to understand the paradox of resource-rich countries around the ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Goodnight, Canada

By Andrea Beck

This charming picture book transports readers across Canada, inviting sleepy young ones to bid goodnight to each province and territory. Written and illustrated by Andrea Beck, author of the popular Elliot Moose series, Goodnight, Canada ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Saltwater Joys

By Wayne Chaulk; Dawn Baker, illus.

If you hang out with Newfoundlanders for any length of time, you’re bound to be regaled with stories and songs. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that these two books by Newfoundland authors contain both stories ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves

By Andy Jones; Darka Erdelji, illus.

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Miss Mousie’s Blind Date

By Tim Beiser; Rachel Berman, illus.

“Spring is such a funny thing,” muses author Tim Beiser in the opening lines of this delightfully brisk ode to seasonal romance among the woodland set. Miss Mousie has stopped in at the local deli, ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk

By Sam Sutherland

In the introduction to Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk, the author eruditely sets out the far-reaching effects of the first wave of punk in Canada, and – in appropriately irreverent fashion ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades

By Marcello Di Cintio

Ursula K. Le Guin begins her seminal novel The Dispossessed with a characteristically simple yet profound observation about a wall: “Like all walls it was ambiguous and two-faced. What was inside it and what was ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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